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Apr.15.2010 TO PUBLISH OR SELF-PUBLISH AND OTHER ADVENTURES (Part Three of the AWP) Just over two years ago when I was teaching creative writing at USC in the Master of Professional Writing Program, I'd volunteered to head up a search for fellow faculty to write proposals for the next AWP Conference. We were between program directors then, and the associate dean who was...	Apr.12.2010 EPIPHANIES AT THE AWP (Part One) I just returned from the AWP Conference in Denver, which was a rich and intense experience that's still washing over me. The AWP (the Association of Writers and Writing Programs) puts on a yearly conference where writers and creative writing instructors from North America gather. Over three days,...
Dec.16.2009 We All Live Long on the Internet In the early eighties, fresh with an MFA in creative writing, I joined Prelude Press as its senior editor, and we put out computer books by one person, Peter McWilliams. I was one of seventeen people working for Peter. With a very active mind and a huge entrepreurial will, Peter started out...	Jul.28.2009 NEW BOOK MARKETING (A Positive Approach for Negative Times) Many novelists I know are a bit like Rodney Dangerfield, feeling like they get no respect. Yet after diving into publishing three years ago. I remain optimistic. Before I explain why, let me remind you of the state of publishing: book advances continue to diminish; imprints are disappearing; red...
Apr.25.2009 THE CHANGING FACE (Part Two) My blog yesterday drew a healthy response, which is great to see. The panel presented a snapshot of the way things are in publishing presently but also avoided two key realities. One is that business-as-usual is just not working. Independent bookstores are falling like buffaloes in the Old West....